Coldest Winter in SF in decades and Wettest in Years, but All tv wx folks are not talking about it,,, or YTD rain totals,,,or Oct.1st "Rain Year" totals.

Not ch 2.
Not ABC.
Not CBS.
Not NBC.

" The low and high temp today is bla bla."

330pm, Monday, 23 jan 2017,,,HAILING IN SF, SOUTH TENDERLOIN !!

Hail !!

San Jose Fire Department DISPATCHER phone number is "not listed". How do you quickly cancel a false alarm !?

I can call the Police non-emergency number on the weekend.
But no one answers on the weekend at SJFD main office.

Thank Goodness, Will's Potato Salad sold at Costco has been drastically reformulated !!

Last time I bought it at Costco ,,, there were big slices of potato and way way Way too much mayo-naise.

Much better now, Will's !!
Thank you much.

Tourism as a major industry has been very good to California and as SF's #1 biz. Can i get lots of support for a return of the SF-LA/SD coast train luxury Daylight and night time luxury with dining cars and sleeper cars ,the Lark ?

America needs much better passenger train service than deeply flawed Amtrak will ever provide.
Seems we need scout train cars on all these poorly maintained , corporate, now "freight" tracks.
We were ripped off by Stanford and the lying cheating over-paid "Big Four".
Let's see if Congress can do better or anything right.

People love giving $Ms to PBS-KQED,a public tv station with a lousy history of succoming to Chevron influence, buying and selling lots of HQs, and refusing local production for way too many years. Why not give instead to the 3 women legacy of SAVE THE BAY and or the health and safety and master planning of your living area, the SFBayArea??

Cleaning up SF Bay is going to be extremely expensive.
So what are your priorities, a TV channel or public health where you live?
Seems rather obvious, if STB would only put up a fancy showy public Contributors Wall. Or Walls.

Microsoft will not left you change Your preset apps !!

Trying to "push" new search engine app.

What was that about Competition and glorified Free Enterprise ??

What happened to the SPAM email label from Outlook and Chrome,,, soft on crime ?

Are we just to "delete" this Daily Mountain of Fraudulent "spam" emails, texts, and calls ?

He'll, a whole lot of you voted for Trump not Dr. Jill...
Welcome to 4 very painful years.

The USPS official "Postage Price Calculator" and sub heading "Calculate Price" for decades has not listed a Standard or Wide Business Envelope". Goes from 2 post card sizes to page size "flat envelopes". Yep, that is our USA fed govt !!

Such an embarrassment of tax payer waste and inefficiency.

My Google Gmail will not let me type "RV" with spell check turned off.

What's for free lunch, Google?

Yo, geeks! There still isn't a software program to quickly,under 30min, transfer all info from old smartphone to pc to new smartphone. T-Mobile usually say "We just sell phones. I'm too busy to help you. Going in the back to drink coffee, eat donuts, and watch tv. Thanks for shopping at T-Mobile. Bye."

Even Best Buy the other day with old too hot and slow S7 Samsung $740 and new so much better and $350 cheaper ZTE Axon7 smartphone. Took 4 patient folks almost 2 hours to transfer most info, but not all my text #s. Guess I will have to add two score numbers and names individually.

Better World Club emergency roadside assistance, on a Cold rainy Friday in Frisco answered the phone with a LIVE PERSON in 1min 48seconds !! AAA/CSAA usually takes 15-30 minutes to talk to a LIVE DISPATCHER as service has greatly declined recently.

Get a 25% discount thru the Sierra Club !!  About $70 for usual $95 upgrade service. 1min 48sec, people !!

And cancel AAA and tow truck driver who use wedges to open windows and doors instead of slim-jims that take patience and skill. Or tow driver who take over an hour, almost 2 hours, to drive from Monterey to Pebble Beach. Or tow drivers who "forgot my tool box at home so I'll be back." Or dispatchers at AAA who treat you like strangers with the usual , "We don't store member info. So I need that tiny long number off your card. Then spell your name, slowly. Then your address, and your phone number. And what kind of car do you have under AAA coverage? Hm, what is that?  No my computer is so slow, please bear with me. And where exactly did you breakdown? Are you in a safe place because it could take hours for us to find a tow truck to go to Oakland. Oh, Modesto, right you said that. Isn't Modesto infamous for carjacking gangs? Yes, I thought so. Could you spell your name again, slowly ?,,,"

Finally, a worthy competitor to AAA !!
Horray !!

If you go out to 9th x H st. Baseball Park, Beware of a guy with an ice pick and hammer who will vandalise your car, like he did mine. $1000s in damage !!

He lives in an old RV in the fenced lot across the street. Danger !!
Very angry violent person that should be in jail or a State Mental Hospital. Beware !!

Most women are so disloyal. Not just cheating on "exclusive" agreed boyfriends. But avoiding all former lovers.Not even a Christmas card!!

Seems very heartless and cruel, doesn't it ?
You love someone for say 4 years and get them off the daily grass appetizer habit.
You think the sex is Great but she doesn't have the honesty and care to tell you "I'm bored and ungrateful."

You take her island hopping all over the Carribean on the old Eastern one month pass. And all over more civilized Western Europe on vacation.
Your normal family tries to love her too ,but she is a stranger to real love.

And she runs off with the first fat ugly mean selfish married millionaire with a big house!
"Mr. NoNeck."
How do most beautiful smart women make such lousy choices,jlo, in BFs!?
He divorces her suddenly when she turns a very hot 50 for a new young gullible model.

She shows up at your work after 25 years without a word but had twins, in tears, stays around all day, in tears, but won't talk. At all.
No big diamond ring anymore I see.
And she runs off to Texas from Paris apartment with ,,, a Texan?!

You don't even get a Christmas card or honesty for expensively dating beautiful smart ,lousy parents crippled American women.
Heartbreak is the Rule, good guys.
You will hear "I love you and I want to marry you, but make double, at least $80k, or ,after years, we are immediately Done. Rob banks? Get out !!"

Thus so many men have wedding proposals accepted for money while they fool themselves it is "for love".
Tragic and sad this loss of a Middle Cash society.

And as for all these women getting pregnant without telling the Lover, sperm donor, natural father that is just so Wrong.  Women know this but do it anyway.

Why is my Android phone now missing a SPAM label when SPAM calls texts and emails are on the rise?

Thought Android was for more Justice, not less.

Whomever Caltrans had repave Highway 101 between SF and SJ certainly did a lousy job !! The asphalt is again this Winter,2016-2017, crumbling in the RAIN.

And we taxpayers paid for such shoddy substandard work.

INSTANT CHECKMATE took well over 15 min to find one USA person, charging $35, not mentioned up front.

Bah Humbug !!

Shame on Portland for evicting a 52 yr old lonely mental issues woman,Ms. Batts, to freeze in a Winter Snowstorm homeless !!

Shame on you !!

Mr. Trump, do you believe that 70 and 80 yr old widows should be apt evicted for no reason in 3 days, as is common in California?

Seems Mideval,  doesn't it  ?

Plane versus Train travel: Just back from Wonderful week in Hawaii, so had to fly, over 5hrs, rough air, trapped in seat with "seat belt buckled", but no CHANCE TO PEE IN OVER 5 HOURS!!

The Hawaiian Air crew were great, even tho told to be at SJ airport "before 5am, 2 1/2hrs before 730am flight" and counter staff did not arrive until after 6am!!
Got to "pre v" TSA incompetents, but what a waste of time.
Long walk to gate without enough gate seats!!
And all the infants and me in the far far back of a drab 767 that so needs the Famous Floral partitions!!
I got a window seat to rest my head on the wall instead of headflopping.
Great aisle companion, a private jet pilot, not those don't talk to me arrogant commercial pilots like the last person I sat next too.
I did pee at home and should have peed at SJ airport; 5 hours sitting without 265 people all being able to just pee is a major problem.

Now for train travel, in case you think it is ancient history.

A few years ago I rode First Class on the Chunnel train. We all sat ,parked outside London, with no fans even. No a/c available. All dressed up and sweating like a ,,, so miserable. Finally the train engines came on and we started moving and going thru the English Channel tube. Nothing to see but gorgeous train interior. That is why I prefer the old reliable big Hovercrafts on the surface.

Once in Fraaance, we stopped again, no fans and sweating in Spring like Crazy. No fans and typical Fr. "no no a/c" in very warm and humid weather. Waiting and waiting ,for what!? Finally at Gare du Nord and Paris 2 star hotel that "we gave away your reservation." Standing in lobby for an hour to show desk manager some True Grit to finally get a shabby room. So besides Amtrak always being late, pulling over on rented train tracks for dumb freight trains probably with one skin frack oil, that would be my worst train travel in a more civilized country.

My best train experience every was the SF to LA-SD "Daylight" and dining car with night sleeper "Lark" train on the California coast, such a beautiful route!! First Class service from mostly black staff, beautiful clean cars and spacious cabins YOU CAN WALK AROUND  are a Huge improvement over jet addict travel. The train owner said it did not pay enough to continue service, but we should not let one biz make such large mass transit decisions. Nor the sold out current State Legislature.

Just my experience and opinion.

Just bought a Life Smart infrared quartz heater, black 2ft tower. Some problems and suggestions.

Model is PCHT1053US.

First, the 7 switch labels are much too faint. I can only read close up.
Huge design error.

Second, the 7 switch labels are out of logic order in 2 rows of 5 and 2.
In the operation manual, #1 is POWER, not LOCK, which is not mentioned!!  Second is MODE, and #3 is THERMOSTAT UP/DOWN ARROWS for 2 buttons. #4 is the TIMER and #7 is OSCILLATE.
But the actual buttons are in disarray!!

Third, this manual covers 4 different heaters, so accurately not mine.
Especially the display screen icons are totally neglected! Idiots. There is no Efficiency in misinformation!!

4th, the top row logically should be POWER, MODE, PAN, CLOCK and LOCK. With the second row 2 buttons for UP and DOWN. Logical.

5th, I like how hot 90 degrees the heater gets and would probably still buy it on Amazon.

EGGO WAFFLES don't keep. In the Original freezer box and interior plastic bags. Ice forms quickly around each waffle and the taste fades.

I'm going to try "freezer storage" bags.
But this is a BIG problem.

This is the COLDEST AUTUMN AND WINTER in SF in Decades !!

Saturday was brutal !!

But probably way better than other 48 states.